A-levels are what English students study in the last two years of their secondary school education (16-18 years old). They are standardised tests and are rather difficult, testing knowledge and capacity to retain and apply information more than actual intelligence. The grades we get in our A-levels determine whether or not universities accept us to study, so they determine what university you go to, meaning they are incredibly important. March 7th (today) was A-Level results day for the January exams, if you do well, then you're fine, but you'll still need to work for the ones in June. If you do badly, you have to do a ******** of resits and you're June exams. Either way, leisure time goes out of the window, and you spend a lot of your time studying. He is saying that he won't use his XBox anymore as he needs to focus on his A-Levels.

Actually most A-Levels in England are done in 6th Form, which is the last two years of education in a secondary school. People rarely do them in a college nowadays, unless they're redoing them after leaving secondary school.

Depends, most colleges offer the same A-Levels as most 6th Forms, but at college you can also do a college course that gets you some qualifications in the middle of a GCSE and an A-Level. Obviously that's not always the case, for example, Eton won't do Media Studies as an A-Level, but colleges sure as hell won't do Latin.

ahhh, thanks for the info.
And no im not English, but i was born in England.
And for the Latin, you can get a GCSE out of it, a mate of mine going to St pauls (by Hammersmith bridge) is doing it as a subject when he turns in year 10.

I know, I'm English, and I did Latin for a GCSE. But most places won't, is what I was saying. That's why i used Eton as an example to compare to a college, Eton will do Latin, but will laugh at Media Studies as an A-Level. Whereas a college will happily offer a Media Studies A-Level, but won't offer Latin.

And tl;dr A-levels are nothing like SATs, we do them in 6th form, posh schools do posh subjects but don't do the less academic courses, colleges are vocational 6th forms, 6th forms are the same as the Junior and Senior years of high school age wise. 'Kay?

I was quite impressed with myself, I also mentioned that his family was the chlorine in the gene pool. I don't think he knew what chlorine was though. It was quite funny, I started using long and uncommon words to insult him because he didn't know what they meant.

Thanks, I'm not that funny, most of the time I just make really bad puns, and then laugh at how disgusted my friends are.

I think he's probably more concerned about what I meant when I told him his mother should have introduced a wire coat-hanger to her urethra during the second trimester since his conception. I told him it was a compliment.

On a previous account I had a go at a foreigner for complaining about people speaking English on FJ, which is quite obviously an English/American speaking website. I had no regrets, they were being a douche about it, saying that everyone on an English language based site should speak their language, or they were faggots.

I got 2 U's in maths and chemistry, an E in psychology and a D in general studies in my AS-Levels. Resat most of my papers, worked hard and ended up with C's in maths, psychology and science (swapped for chemistry) and a D in general studies. Typed this for my uni room, which i never thought possible. STICK AT IT :)!!

You think that's bad, I did five exams in january, got a D, two Es, and two Us. I have to resit all of them (some of them were resits already), and then some more, and I'm going to have to do 12 exams in June :(

Same, got them this morning. You're still doing better than me at least :L A fair few people at my school cried too, i just got on with it, thankfully I'm quite good at apathy. I only really want to work with animals for a living, so I don't actually need a university education, but I want one, and it'll be useful.

If all else fails I could just learn Japanese and move there as an english teacher :L